Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Designator	Sounding Level
Context rating	Tertiary
General remarks	This is arbitrary locus given to sounding in the SW of the trench.
Strat below	5223
Top depth center	584.74
Bottom depth center	584.48
Start date	2005-05-30
End date	2005-05-30
Color	5 YR/5/2 Reddish Brown (when very humid)
Texture	soft and fine silty (when very humid)
Description remarks	Description was made when soil was very humid. I could not wait for it to dry because we had to go further down with a new locus and soil does not dry out for days in the deep sounding.
Tentative Date	Ubaid
Has note	Contexts excavated in trenches were recorded using the "locus system." A locus is any discrete three-dimensional entity excavated in a trench. The key to the locus system is the recognition that a locus is any one thing. Differences in soil composition or texture are therefore as important as, for example, the difference between a pit and a wall. If two entities were distinct, they were considered separate loci and were therefore assigned separate locus numbers. It should also be noted that every context excavated in a trench was given a locus number and thus the trench itself is made up completely of excavated loci.